Amlogic

Amlogic Inc.
Company typePublic
SSE: 688099
IndustrySemiconductors
FoundedMarch 14, 1995 (1995-03-14)
Headquarters,
USA
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
John Zhong (CEO)
ProductsSoC integrated circuits
ParentAmlogic Holdings Ltd.
Websitewww.amlogic.com
Footnotes / references
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Amlogic (USA) Ltd., also known as Amlogic, Inc. (sometimes stylized AMLogic) is a fabless semiconductor company that was founded on March 14, 1995, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. It predominantly focuses on designing and selling system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions. Amlogic has offices worldwide including Mountain View (HQ), Bangalore, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Milan, Munich, Japan, Taiwan, and Novi Sad, Serbia, and offices in Hong Kong and China, including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Xi'an, Hefei, and Nanjing.[3]

It developed Video CD player chips and later chips for DVD players and other applications involving MPEG2 decoding.[4] Am logic was involved in the creation of the HVD (High-Definition Versatile Disc) standard promoted in China as an alternative to DVD video disks used in DVD players.[5] The company was a player in the developing Chinese tablet processor market since 2010–2013.[6][7]

Amlogic is an ARM licensee[8][9] and uses the ARM architecture in the majority of its products as of 2014. According to a joint press release with ARM in 2013, it was the first company to use ARM's Mali-450 GPU in a configuration with six cores or more.[10]

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  2. ^ "Company Overview of Amlogic Inc". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on April 22, 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  3. ^ About amlogic.com
  4. ^ "Amlogic Profile". Procure International, Inc. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  5. ^ "Standards of Power? Technology, Institutions, and Politics in the Development of China's National Standards Strategy" (PDF). The National Bureau of Asian Research. p. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  6. ^ "EE Times-China 2011 Awards". Global Sources. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  7. ^ "China Fabless: Allwinner's secret to tablet IC success". EE Times. 2013-04-09. p. 2. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
  8. ^ "Space: Amlogic | ARM Connected Community". arm. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  9. ^ "ARM Mali GPU Licensees Increase to 18 with Addition of Amlogic and Mtekvision". arm. 12 February 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-10-06. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  10. ^ "Amlogic Answers the UHD Challenge with Landmark Implementation of ARM Mali-450 MP6 GPU". Business Wire. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 2014-04-22.

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